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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology, Teacher Certification Track (BS) Sample Plan


YEAR ONE

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
BI - 151 Introductory Biology I   + BI 151L (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Scientific Inquiry - 1/6) 4 BI - 152 Introductory Biology II   + BI 152L 4
CH - 101 General Chemistry I   + CH 101L + CH 101P 5 CH - 102 General Chemistry II   + CH 102L + CH 102P 5
ED - 109 The Educative Process   3 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy    1
TOTAL CREDITS 18 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or TH - 109 Catholic Theology   3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or TH - 109 Catholic Theology ​  3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 3/6) 3 BI - 330 Genetics  + BI 330L   4
BI - 255 Molecular Biology   + BI 255L 4 CH - 232 Organic Chemistry II  + CH 232L 4
CH - 231 Organic Chemistry I  + CH 231L 4 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 17

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 Lens 1, 2 or 3 (1/3) 3
MA - 121 Calculus I  (Satistfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning (5/6) 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) 3
BI - 341 Ecology  + BI 341L 4 MA - 122 Calculus II    3
BI - 355 Human Structure and Function I  + BI 355L or BI - 263 Anatomy and Physiology I  + BI 263L 4 BI - 221 Biostatistics   3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 BI - 356 Human Structure and Function II  + BI 356L or BI - 264 Anatomy & Physiology II  + BI 264L 4
TOTAL CREDITS 17 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR FOUR

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2 or 3 (2/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1. 2 or 3 (3/3) 3
PH - 201 General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat  +PH 201L 5 PH - 202 General Physics II: Wave Phenomena and Electromagnetism   + PH 202L 5
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners   3 BI - 455 Biology Capstone    3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 17 TOTAL CREDITS 14

OVERALL TOTAL BACHELOR’S CREDITS: 130

YEAR FIVE - GRADUATE M.Ed. PHASE* **

Summer Fall
SC 518 3 SC 525 3
SC 519 3 SE 522 3
SC 524 3    
SC 522 3    
Spring Summer
SC 551 3 ED 600 3

OVERALL TOTAL POST-BACHELOR’S CREDITS: 24

*Admission Requirements for Graduate M.Ed. Phase: (1) Satisfactory completion of ED 109, ED 209, ED 218, ED 366, and ED 373; (2) cumulative GPA of 3.0; and (3) passing score on PRAXIS Biology test.

**Additional tuition based on current M.Ed. rates.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .